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Whether it's teaching basic IT principles to under privileged youth in Brazil, or it's serving as a mentor to a youth delegate to the UN Global Youth Leadership Summit, Sun employees are active in sharing their skills, energy, and resources with the communities where they live and work.

Worldwide Volunteer Initiatives

— During Sun Worldwide Volunteer Week, Sun volunteers worked with Save the Bay to transplant sea lavender and remove nonnative species.

Volunteerism has always been a core value at Sun. Employees around the world volunteer on hundreds of projects year-round. Worldwide Volunteer Week, our annual milestone, is an industry benchmark. Over the years, more than 10,000 employees have participated in Worldwide Volunteer Week, devoting a total of 85,000 hours and averaging 120 projects each year. In addition to the tens of thousands of hours invested, Sun employees serve on the boards of more than 73 nonprofit organizations.

Helping Disaster Victims in Need
Sun was recognized by the Red Cross for our contributions — personal donations as well as equipment and technical assistance — to disaster relief efforts for the 2004 tsunami in Asia and 2005's Hurricane Katrina. Through our Employee Grant Matching program, Sun and our employees donated $1.2 million to aid victims of the tsunami and another $1.8 million to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. In addition to monetary support, Sun employees were on the ground in Lafayette, Louisiana immediately in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to donate their labor — together with Sun equipment and related network infrastructure — so that those affected could search for missing loved ones, access e-mail and voice mail, and connect with friends and relatives from the evacuee center in the Cajundome Arena. Sun technicians also assisted businesses in the region in bringing their enterprises back online.

Project Open Doors
For four years, Sun employees in Brazil have opened the company's facilities after hours to young people from impoverished communities. These young people have been trained on basic IT principals, office skills, and Java technology. The program is in partnership with Obra do Berco, a local nonprofit in the city of Sao Paulo, and has educated more than 220 people — some of whom have joined Sun as interns.

Work is now under way to replicate the success in Brazil. This initiative is called Project Open Doors and is intended to bring programs similar to that instituted in Brazil to Sun's facilities around the globe.

Read more about Sun's employee Global Volunteer Program.

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